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Recent publications

Don't Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrongwas republished in November 2019 with a brilliant analytical introduction by Dr Deirdre Osborne, Reader in English Literature and Drama in the Theatre and Performance Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

I edited Turning the Page, a collection of short stories written by the survivors' group at Southall Black Sisters with creative responses from Jackie Kay, Moniza Alvi, Meena Kandasamy and Miss Yankey. This was also published in November 2019.

The Royal Literary Fund, of which I am a fellow, commissions short podcasts from its writers on a variety of themes. Here are two 3 min podcasts on 'How Writing changes the Writer' and 'Letter to my younger self'.